Part 7 (2/2)
And he never complains He doesn't wait for her to ask him not to, either It is awfully hard on hi boy of his age I have ever seen He wants to try everything going” Lee looked wistful ”I wish _I_ could hear soo as far as that,” said Chauncey soothingly ”They just guy hi if _I_ hear thee that there is and some day will prove it But never, never if it will distress his mother He will bear all the slurs and insults in the world rather than hurt her”
”Ji ”All the fellows do is guy him, and ill see to it that they stop that, you can bank on it Chance here and me will never see the kid abused I am some scrapper myself, if it comes to that!”
He pounded Lee cheerfully on the back and that young ht Lem, a six footer and heavy, and hat seeround and tossed hi balanced for a round Chauncey was round-eyed with amazement and Lem sputtered, ”Lee, you wizard, you! How in the world did you do that? Why, I am twice your size!”
”Just a little Indian trick that I learned a good while ago when I used to visit so bucks who used to wrestle withBill, and he can al like you, Lem Do you want to see me throw you twenty feet over my head?”
”Why, you loon, I should say not!” said Le off
”Oh, be a sport, Lem, and let me see the fun!” cried Chauncey
But Leh or how far he flew, he was strangely unwilling to let himself be tossed out on the prairie to a The others stood looking after hi about him is his color and his walk Do you notice how he puts one foot down right in front of the other as though he alking along a narrow trail?”
”He is one of the straightest fellows I have ever known,” said Le his head to see if it was all right after its late experience with Lee ”I a there is about a plane, and it did seeround It is a wonderful chance for those kids to stand in over here, you know They are getting the best training in the world in the flying game I had commenced to think Bill was a perfect sissy That little auto car on a s at fifteen lad to kno it is”
Leum which he offered to Chauncey They strolled away in the direction of the hangars and Lee hurried over to Major Anderson's quarters, where he found the two boys sitting on the wide, screened veranda
”Just waiting for you, Lee,” said Bill, looking at his watch ”Wethese days?” he asked Frank, asup for school”
”Why didn't you begin last Christ out of his dreas to attend to at the last second and I a for o I will be all out of practice with the planes by the tioing to school?”
”Have you heard from him lately?” asked Bill
”Not a word since he went away Mother thought it was funny he didn't write her a note to thank her for entertaining him His father wrote her instead”
”Did Jardin knohere we are going?” asked Bill
”We didn't know ourselves when he left, and I can't write and tell him, because for all I know he may be in Europe by this time”
”_I_ am just as well pleased,” said Bill ”You know I never did have any use for hiood deal better with the other fellows and with the teachers if he is not there as a friend of ours”
”You were always down on hiht And he has the e, do you?” asked Bill
”Of course not!” said Frank, flushi+ng ”You are such a nut about things!
Of course I don'tthat will put you in right at school or anywhere else”
”That sounds just like Jardin,” replied Bill ”Well, if that is so, what do you suppose I a to do yourself?”